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MS-09F/trop Dom Tropen
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Model number: MS-09F/trop
Code name: Dom Tropen
Unit type: localized ground combat mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zimmad Company
Operator(s): Principality of Zeon; Zeon remnants
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 18.5 meters
Weight: empty 44.8 metric tons; max gross 79.0 metric tons
Armor materials: super-hard steel alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1199 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 2 x 22000 kg, 2 x 7300 kg
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.74 G; 180-degree turn time 2.1 seconds; maximum ground hovering speed 360 km/h
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 6300 meters
Fixed armaments: scattering beam gun, mounted in torso; heat saber, battery powered, stored in recharge rack on back, hand-carried in use
Optional hand armaments: 880mmRB-T27 raketen bazooka, clip-fed, 5 rounds per clip, spare clips can be stored on waist armor storage racks; MMP-80/90mm Ver.8 machine gun, clip-fed, 32 rounds per clip, spare clips can be stored on waist armor storage racks, machine gun can be stored on rear skirt armor storage rack; 280mm Zaku bazooka, cartridge-fed, 4 rounds per cartridge; sturm faust, rocket-propelled warhead, can be stored on waist armor storage racks
An advancement on the YMS-09D Dom Tropical Test Type, the Zeon military introduces the MS-09F/trop Dom Tropen late in the One Year War, designed to operate exclusively in localized desert and tropical regions on Earth ("tropen" is German for "tropical"). In addition to sand protection filters to protect its equipment and powerful cooling systems to overcome the desert heat, the Dom Tropen features special sand protection filtered intakes for its leg-mounted thermonuclear jet engines, allowing the mobile suit to retain its high ground hovering speeds without fear of sand ruining the engines. It also sports specialized block-shaped armor designed to help keep sand from getting inside. Though the exact production numbers of the Dom Tropen are unknown, many units survive the war, with two participating in the theft of the Earth Federation Forces' RX-78GP02A Gundam "Physalis" mobile suit in October UC 0083 and four units aiding in the defense of Zeon's underground Kinbareid Base in eastern Africa. More than a decade later, Zeon remnants continue to use the Dom Tropen during an attack on Australia's Torrington Base in UC 0096.
Pilot(s): Gaily, Adamsky
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory; Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles; Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield; Mobile Suit Gundam Battlefield Record UC 0081; Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (novel); Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (anime); Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs.
Original mechanical designer: Hajime Katoki
280mm Zaku bazooka
880mmRB-T27 raketen bazooka
MMP-80/90mm Ver.8 machine gun
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